APALA Conference Travel Award 2012

Heading to the Anaheim this summer? Need help getting there? Apply for the APALA Travel Award.  The APALA Travel Award will provide $500.00 to support attendance at the 2012 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference.  The Travel Award will fund one APALA member (librarian or library/information school student) to attend the conference and will be used to help cover registration and travel expenses.  We hope that you will apply for the award and encourage others that you know to do so as well.

The deadline is April 6, 2012.  The eligibility information, application requirements, and online application form can be found on APALA’s website— http://www.apalaweb.org/awards/travel-grant/

APALA membership information— http://www.apalaweb.org/membership/membership.htm  J

If you have questions please contact committee co-chairs: Safi Safiullah (ssafiullah@slcpl.org)and Gayatri Singh (gasingh@ucsd.edu)

Sincerely,

The 2012 APALA Travel Award Selection Committee:

Shalini Channapatna

Tassanne Chitcharoen

Jina Park

Safi Safiullah

Gayatri Singh

Michelle Wu

Digital Public Library of America West offers travel scholarships for students

On behalf of the Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee, I would like to invite you and your community to attend the DPLA’s second major public event, DPLA West<http://dp.la/get-involved/events/dplawest/>, taking place on April 27, 2012 in San Francisco. Convened by the DPLA Secretariat at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-hosted by the Internet Archive and the San Francisco Public Library, the event will assemble a wide range of stakeholders in a broad, open forum to facilitate innovation, collaboration, and connections across the DPLA effort. DPLA West will also showcase the work of the interim technical development team and continue to provide opportunities for public participation in the work of the DPLA.

Limited scholarships to support participation in DPLA West are available for those who are traveling from distant areas. We heartily encourage your students to apply by Friday, March 2. Scholarship amounts will vary, but are intended to apply to travel and accommodation costs for out-of-town participants. Preference will be given to applicants who have not yet attended a DPLA event.

To apply, please fill out the short application via the scholarship page located on our site: http://dp.la/get-involved/events/dplawest/scholarships/

For more information about the DPLA and DPLA West, please visit the DPLA homepage: http://dp.la/

Warm regards,

Maura Marx
Director, DPLA Secretariat

Travel Grant Competition to Use Special Collections at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Travel Grant Competition
The Department of Special Collections 
Washington University Libraries St. Louis, Missouri

Application Deadline: March 15, 2012. Travel must occur between May 15, 2012 and June 30, 2013.

Travel reimbursement grants of up to $1000 are available to faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and independent scholars who would like to use our collections for research. Funds may be used for transportation, food, lodging, and photocopying. Applicants must reside at least 50 miles from St. Louis.

The Department of Special Collections is a multi-faceted research institution that contains materials related to a wide variety of academic disciplines. Below is a listing of some of our major collections:

Film and Media Archive: The Film and Media Archive is committed to the preservation of documentary film and other media which chronicle America’s great political and social movements, with a particular emphasis on the African-American experience. The collections of prominent filmmakers Henry Hampton (Eyes on the Prize) and William Miles (I Remember Harlem) include hundreds of hours of high quality programming and feature a comprehensive and diverse array of primary interviews, photos, archival footage, and written documents gathered and generated during the film production process. For more information, contact Nadia Ghasedi atnghasedi@wustl.edu or (314) 935-6154, or visit our on-line catalog at http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/filmandmedia/.

Manuscripts: Collections of literary papers, press archives, and magazine archives. The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of major 20th-century literary figures including James Merrill, Samuel Beckett, Howard Nemerov, Stanley Elkin, William Gass, Mona Van Duyn, and many others. For more information, contact Joel Minor at joelminor@wustl.edu or (314) 935-5413, or visithttp://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/.

Modern Graphic History Library: Dedicated to acquiring and preserving distinguished works of modern illustration and pictorial graphic culture. Focusing on artists’ working materials and sketches as well as finished artworks, the range of the collection extends from book, magazine, and advertising illustration to graphic novels, comics, poster design, pictorial information design, and animation. In addition, the collection also contains the archives of fine artists like Ernest Trova that have a relationship with popular culture and mass media. For more information, contact Skye Lacerte at slacerte@wustl.edu or (314) 935-7741, or visit http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/MGHL/.

Rare Books: Collection strengths include the history of books and printing, especially the English Arts & Crafts movement; the book arts; semeiology and the history of non-verbal communication; a collection of Little Black Sambo books and related objects; and 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature complementing the modern literary archives housed in the manuscript unit. For more information, contact Erin Davis at erindavis@wustl.edu or (314) 935-5583, or visit http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/rarebooks/.

University Archives: The Washington University Archives is comprised of more than 300 unique collections. Most collections chronicle the history of Washington University from 1853 to the present day. These diverse collections range from the writings of University co-founder William G. Eliot, to student produced publications, and professional and personal papers of faculty members such as Arthur Holly Compton. Other collections relate to 20th-century St. Louis history, with a focus on business, transportation, politics, social welfare, urban planning, and architecture. For more information, contact Sonya Rooney at srooney@wustl.edu or (314) 935-9730, or visit http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/archives/.

An application form is available at http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/tg/TravelGrantApplicationForm2012.pdf.

The Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/ 
spec@wumail.wustl.edu
(314) 935-5495 

SLA Business & Finance Division with ISI Emerging Markets offers an International Travel Award to attend SLA Annual 2012

The SLA Business and Finance Division, with the sponsorship of ISI Emerging Markets™, is offering one award in the amount of US$ 2,000, plus complimentary registration to one CE course offered by the Business & Finance Division, to a business information professional from a developing country to help cover expenses at the 2012 SLA Annual Conference, to be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 15-18, 2012.

For information about this award, download the International Travel Award application or go to: http://bf.sla.org/category/announcements/

Questions and submissions should be directed to Awilda Reyes, Chair, International Travel Award Committee, atareyes@wcupa.edu.

Awilda Reyes

Chair, International Travel Award Committee

SLA Business & Finance Division

Francis Harvey Green Library

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

West Chester, PA 19383

USAIN conference scholarships available

The USAIN (United States Agriculture Information Network) Awards Committee is pleased to announce we are now accepting applications for our biennial conference scholarships. We look forward to hearing from you!

CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MEMBERS NEW TO USAIN OR AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION

Two $1000.00 scholarships to be applied to the costs of attending the USAIN 2012 conference are available to library school graduates who are USAIN members new to the field of agricultural information (less than three years) or first time USAIN Conference attendees. The conference will be held April 29 – May 2, 2012 at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

To apply, send a cover letter including name, address, e-mail address, and phone number along with job title/description, place of employment and length of time spent in the agricultural information field, and/or a statement as a first-time attendee.

Also, submit an essay on a separate page or pages. The essay should be double-spaced, no more than 750 words, and address the 2012 conference theme: “Soil, Water, Food and Energy: Agriculture in an Era of Global Climate Change.”

Additional conference information is available at http://plant.lib.umn.edu/USAIN2012/

Essays will be judged on the basis of thoughtfulness, quality of writing, and adherence to application guidelines as described above. Submitted essays will not be returned.

Checks will be presented to the recipients at the USAIN Awards ceremony at the Conference. USAIN reserves the right to withhold the awards if there are no suitable applicants.

Deadline is December 14, 2011.

Scholarship recipients will be notified by February 12, 2012.

Send the cover letter and essay via email to:

Noel Kopriva

Evansdale Library

West Virginia University Libraries

Phone: 304.293.9747

noel.kopriva@mail.wvu.edu

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Thank you for your interest in the USAIN Scholarships

USAIN Awards Committee 2011-2012

Eileen Herring (Chair), University of Hawaii at Manoa Library; Noel Kopriva, West Virginia University Libraries; Amy W. Shannon, University of Nevada, Reno; Amanda Werhhane, University of Wisconsin - Madison

RUSA’s Zora Neale Hurston Award

The deadline for the Zora Neale Hurston Award is December 15th, so there is
still time to make a submission! This award  from RUSA/CODES honors ALA members
who have
demonstrated leadership in promoting African American literature through
projects such as a program, display, collection building efforts, a special
readers’ advisory focus, or innovation in service.

The winner will receive  $1250.00 in funds to attend the ALA Annual Conference,
tickets to the Literary Tastes breakfast and the FOLUSA Author tea, and a set
of the Zora Neale Hurston books published by Harper Perennial.

To nominate yourself or someone you know, please download the nomination form
located on the award web page at
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/awards/znh/index.cfm

In addition to the form you need to send the following:

**A nomination letter that describes the project

**Photos, booklists, screen captures, or other forms of illustration of the
project

**A brief essay—approximately 250 words—explaining how attending the ALA
Annual Conference will help further the nominee’s efforts to support and
promote African American literature.

The deadline for nominations is December 15th.

Please email, fax, or mail the nomination packet to Cynthia Crosser, Chair,
Zora Neale Hurston Award Committee.

Email: cynthia.crosser@umit.maine.edu
Fax: (207) 581-1653.

Social Science and Humanities Reference Librarian
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library,
Orono, ME 04469-5729
Voice: (207) 581-3612

OSU & Digital Library Federation Sponsoring 5 Scholarships to Promote Gender & Cultural Diversity for travel to Code4Lib

Oregon State University and the Digital Library Federation are
sponsoring five scholarships to promote gender and cultural diversity.
Each scholarship will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and
conference fees for one qualified attendee to attend the 2012 Code4Lib
Conference, which will be held in Seattle, Washington, from
Monday,February 6 through Thursday, February 9.

The Code4Lib scholarship committee will award two scholarships per
category, awarding the remaining scholarship to the best remaining
candidate in either category.  The Code4Lib scholarship committee will
award these scholarships based on merit and need.


ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants, if eligible, may apply for both scholarships, but no
applicant will receive more than one scholarship. Past winners of
either scholarship are not eligible for either scholarship.
Scholarship recipients will be required to write a short trip report
to be submitted to the scholarships committee by February 17, 2012.


CONFERENCE INFO:
For more information on the Code4Lib Conference, please see the
conference website:http://code4lib.org/conference/2012

and write-ups of previous Code4Lib Conferences:
http://eprints.rclis.org/11670/1/code4lib_journal_article_-_revised3.pdf
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2717
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/998
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/72


THE OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION
DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS
The Gender Diversity Scholarships will provide up to $1,000 to cover
travel costs and conference fees for two qualified applicants to
attend the 2012 Code4Lib Conference. Any woman or transgendered person
who is interested in actively contributing to the mission and goals of
the Code4Lib Conference is encouraged to apply.

THE OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION
MINORITY SCHOLARSHIPS
The Minority Scholarships will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel
costs and conference fees for two qualified applicants to attend the
2012 Code4Lib Conference. To qualify for this scholarship, an
applicant must be interested in actively contributing to the mission
and goals of the Code4Lib Conference and must be of Hispanic or
Latino, Black orAfrican-American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific
Islander, or American Indian or Alaskan Native descent.


HOW TO APPLY:
To apply, please send an email to Jeremy Frumkin
(frumkinj@u.library.arizona.edu) with the following:
- Indication of which scholarship (Gender or Minority or both) to
which you are applying
- A brief letter of interest, which:
 1.    Describes your interest in the conference and how you intend to
participate
 2.    Discusses your statement of need
 3.    Indicates your eligibility
- A résumé or CV- Contact information for two professional or academic
references

The application deadline is Dec. 9, 2012.

The scholarship committee will notify successful candidates the week
of Dec. 19, 2012.

WT Cox Subscriptions Travel Grant/Scholarship for ALA Midwinter 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

800-571-9554

WT Cox Subscriptions Announces Travel Grant/Scholarship for ALA Midwinter 2012

11-14-11, Shallotte NC. WT Cox Subscriptions, a full service subscription agency, announced a new travel grant program for ALA Midwinter attendees.  Applicants must complete a simple very short survey in order to be considered for this travel grant/scholarship.  The survey/application for the travel grant may be found by visiting www.wtcox.com/midwinter2012

“We know that budgets are tough and spending on travel to conferences is being reduced, so we wanted to help a librarian out in a very concrete way.  The survey also gives us some insight into why people attend national conferences and what information they are seeking” say Bonnie Cribbs of WT Cox Subscriptions.   The survey can be completed in a few minutes, and immediately makes one eligible to be selected for the travel grant.

WT Cox Subscriptions will use ALA Midwinter to feature its subscription services, further promote its eBook program of over 3 Million research oriented eBooks, and demonstrate Journal Finder, an A-Z List, LinkResolver and ERM Solution.  

For more information about the travel grant/scholarship, please contact G. Bonnie Cribbs at 800-571-9554 x 252 or Bonnie@wtcox.com

About WT Cox Subscriptions
WT Cox Subscriptions is a premier full service subscription vendor with over 19,000 customers throughout the United States. Offering a portfolio of services that include print and electronic subscription access, WT Cox also provides an ERM solution, online management tools, personal customer service specialist and an impressive reputation for being very easy to work with. http://www.wtcox.com

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EBSCO offering 7 Scholarship to 2012 ALA Annual Conference

EBSCO offers seven scholarships to librarians attending 2012 ALA Annual Conference

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO are partnering to offer seven scholarships for librarians to attend the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif. The meeting takes place June 21 - 26, 2012 and offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings and interaction with colleagues.

Each EBSCO scholarship will be in the amount of $1,000. The scholarship money is to be used for conference registration, travel and expenses.

Deadline for entry is Dec. 1, 2011; scholarship recipients will be notified no later than March 1, 2012.  To apply, candidates must complete the application and submit an essay that addresses the following topic: “How will attending this ALA Conference contribute to my professional development?” Essays and applications will be judged by a jury designated by ALA.

About EBSCO

Established in 1944, EBSCO is the world’s leading information agent providing consultative services and cutting-edge technology for managing and accessing quality content, including print and e-journals, e-packages, research databases, eBooks and more.  Now more than ever libraries and research organizations are looking for new ways to manage their collections more efficiently. EBSCO has developed the most comprehensive “e” discovery and management solutions, offering unparalleled integration to help librarians save time and money while empowering their users.

EBSCO serves clients in more than 200 countries through our 30 offices worldwide with more than 140 librarians on staff. To learn more about EBSCO’s products and services, visit www.ebsco.com.

Contacts: 
Cheryl Malden
Program Officer
(312) 280-3247
cmalden@ala.org

Rossi Morris
Media Relations Coordinator
EBSCO Corporate Communications
www.twitter.com/EBSCOInfoSvcs
rmorris@ebsco.com
205-980-3885

3M/NMRT Conference Award 2012

Deadline: December 16, 2011